TBD x Castelli New Kit Day
As TBD enters its second decade, one of our traditions is that every few years we hand Daghan Perker the reigns and ask him to come up with something special for team kit. Back in 2020 we asked him to do an evolution of the team’s prior kit, and he did not disappoint. For this year’s effort we took a different strategy. We gave Daghan pretty much carte blanche to come up with a new design direction - something independent from the maroon and navy colorway that has been present in TBD kit since 2017.
Long story short, we could not be happier with the results that you see here. Daghan placed every dot on the jersey by hand using pen and paper. It was a marathon 8+ hour session, but when finished he then converted this physical artwork to a digital template. We then handed these templates over to our friends at Castelli, who applied it to their industry leading apparel.
Is it a summer jersey? Is it a cyclocross kit that lives dangerous with mostly white fabric? Or maybe a limited edition ‘FunFetti’ kit? Or is it our primary kit design going forward? The honest answer is that we don’t know. We’re just excited to start wearing this absolutely beautiful kit.
Stay tuned to for full recap from Daghan on his design process from early sketches, to final 'physical’ artwork, to production templates and print samples.
A New York City based cyclist and sometimes photographer. Part adventure rider, part crit racer, and fully obsessed with an English bulldog named Winifred.
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E-mail: matthew@tobedetermined.cc
